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So, you just want to keep a partition for Windows XP and another partition for all your applications that you install. You can change it in all the installations manually but changing the default location is a much better idea. And there are also some applications which don’t let you change the default path.

XP uses the C:\Program Files directory as the default base directory into which new programs are installed. However, you can change the default installation drive and/ or directory by using a Registry hack.

Run the Registry Editor (regedit)and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
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Firefox is getting very popular lately, mainly due to its customizability. I use firefox as my main browser and use all sorts of addons which help me in web-development. These addons make my firefox hungry but I can’t do without them. So, instead I tweaked around some settings in firefox which made it much responsive and faster than before.

To tweak those settings, follow the following steps:

1. Type about:config in your address bar and hit enter.
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Many a times we require the next Auto Increment value from a MySQL table. Most of the people would do something like this:

$query = "Select MAX(id) from users";
$res = mysql_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
$maxid = $row['MAX(id)'];
echo $maxid;

This would give correct results but if we delete the latest row, it will start to give wrong results.

We’ve got another query which can be used to get correct ‘Auto Increment’ values from the table.
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My desktop computer was running extremely slow but it wasn’t like this before. Even formatting didn’t help, so I knew for sure that there was a problem with hardware. I was right on that, DMA mode wasn’t being detected by XP.

For your knowledge, DMA (Direct Memory Access) is a mode supported by modern hard-disks/DVD drives for much faster access times to device. To check if your HDD’s working on DMA mode, follow these steps:
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Absolute positioning is great for positioning items anywhere on a page but it does not mix well with screen-resolution. It might look fine on your resolution but it might look completely different on another resolution. Element placement changes upon changing the screen resolution or even when resizing the browser window. It is because items positioning is measured from the browser’s window.

To always display it correctly, you can put relative or absolute positioning on the parent element.
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Many a time you will want to edit your registry when you get your windows screwed and it refuses to boot up.
You know what changes should be made in the registry to fix the problem, but you don’t have any way to fix it. I had a similar problem and I used this tool to edit registry:
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/main.html

This is a non-GUI bootable app. You should be familiar with the command-line and how it works before using it otherwise you may get into deeper problems.

This is another tool which I found while googling:

http://www.pcregedit.com/

I hope this helps all you people who are thinking to reformat your computer because of registry errors.

Peace!

Seriously guys, I got this error and I was laughing hard. The error is just too funny, don’t you think? Yes, it is but not for developers like me. Problem to this error is almost undetectable and there are more than a dozen reasons as to why this occurs and this often baffles developers.

This error generally comes when :

MySQL connection times out.

The MySQL server shuts down.

The connection is interrupted.

The query you are performing is too large for server to handle.

The query you are performing takes more space than allowed (default: 16MB).

While these are some common reasons, there maybe some unknown reasons to come across this error. I faced one of those unknown reasons. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes you need to edit some part of your website and unfortunately it isn’t made by you. You will, obviously, need to search for the file in which that particular part of site exists. In CMSs/forums/blogs, it get really hard to search it manually.

I was having a similar problem. I needed to edit the footer of my site http://www.techmindz.com but I didn’t know which file, out of 100s, had that particular part. I just made a script for that. Read the rest of this entry »

Just bought www.insanelyme.com for my blog. As I consider myself insane (most of you will agree with that), I found this name suitable for my blog. I bought it in the same instant when I saw it was available.

I added the domain in cPanel as addon domain but unfortunately it didn’t support second level directory (example.com/tech/blog). So I copied all the files from the directory and pasted it in a directory on top level. I pointed the domain to it and it worked. I changed the Blog URL in admin panel and it worked.

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Many a times we would want to check out some WAP sites on computer but unfortunately, we can’t.

But firefox has a solution to all the Read the rest of this entry »